5 alternatives to tesseract.js

naptha/tesseract.js — Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages 📖🎉🖥 (38,798 stars, Apache-2.0, dev-tools, files, testing).

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The alternatives in detail

• robertknight/tesseract-wasm
  JS/WebAssembly build of the Tesseract OCR engine for use in browsers and Node
  score 4.6/10 · BSD-2-Clause permissive · 388 stars · 8 components · search them
• thiagoalessio/tesseract-ocr-for-php
  A wrapper to work with Tesseract OCR inside PHP.
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 3,042 stars · 5 components · search them
• tesseract-ocr/tesseract
  Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)
  score 5.6/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 77,302 stars · 615 components · search them · alternatives
• otiai10/gosseract
  Go package for OCR (Optical Character Recognition), by using Tesseract C++ library
  score 4.5/10 · MIT permissive · 3,140 stars · 5 components · search them
• robertknight/ocrs
  Rust library and CLI tool for OCR (extracting text from images)
  score 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,912 stars · 21 components · search them

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